Visual effects are amazing but the movie is all over the place. You have to take it as it is.

Jesus Christ, what an incoherent disaster. Boom! Slash! Explosion! cut to Mark Walburg crawling thru an alien ship.. "It want's us to go this way". Cut to FIREFIGHT! Explosion! WTF?? It took me three days to watch this in chunks, I simply didn't have the stamina. ADHD ALL THE WAY. Nothing about this made any sense, I think they took a 5 hour movie and cut it down to 2 hrs, just, randomly. This is a megahit? My God, what has the world come to...

This has all the ingredients of a good film, but it's composition is certainly not as recognisable as most Sci-Fi Action films recently released. The pacing is oddly fast with some intriguing storylines swiftly being washed to the side for more CGI spectacles. One thing I will say in this film is that elements of the script are really very good. We enjoyed the 'butler' robot very much with his sarcastic remarks bringing humour to the film and tied nicely with his master's equally dry sense of humour. I really wish I could rate it higher because we were left saying 'that wasn't bad' when the credits rolled but honestly I can barely remember the storyline it was shifting so rapidly. Hopefully the next Transformers instalment will carry a little more weight in terms of storyline and pacing to support it's awesome CGI elements and give the film a better shape overall.

Mark Whalberg and Josh Duhamel did their best with what they were given. The directing and editing was garbage. There was far too much going on. This movie is X-Men Apocalypse bad. It's like Michael Bay was doing four different movies that have nothing to do with each other and tried to make it into one really bad movie. If you're a 6 year old that likes fireworks than this movie is for you. I own 500+ movies and I hated this one. I would rather watch Octonauts on repeat than this movie. At least I learn things from that show. It has a better plot than this movie.